The Best of The Vines

The Best of The Vines is a compilation album by The Vines and contains a selection of singles and album tracks from their first three albums released under Capitol Records. The band did not have a say in the release having been dropped by Capitol Records in 2007, however they picked the songs.[3]

The Best of The Vines
Greatest hits album by
Released11 March 2008 (U.S.)
RecordedJul 2001-Feb 2002 The Sound Factory (Hollywood, California), 2003 Bearsville Studios (New York), 2005 BJB studios (Sydney)
GenreAlternative rock, garage rock, post-grunge, neo-psychedelia
Length54:37
LabelCapitol
ProducerRob Schnapf, Wayne Connolly, The Vines
The Vines chronology
Vision Valley
(2006)
The Best of The Vines
(2008)
Melodia
(2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
Q [2]

Track listing

No.TitleFromLength
1."Get Free"Highly Evolved2:06
2."Ride"Winning Days2:36
3."Highly Evolved"Highly Evolved1:35
4."Winning Days"Winning Days3:33
5."Outtathaway"Highly Evolved3:02
6."Autumn Shade"Highly Evolved2:18
7."Autumn Shade II"Winning Days3:14
8."Factory"Highly Evolved3:12
9."Animal Machine"Winning Days3:28
10."Don't Listen to the Radio"Vision Valley2:12
11."Vision Valley"Vision Valley2:42
12."Homesick"Highly Evolved4:53
13."Fuck the World"Winning Days3:41
14."Spaceship"Vision Valley6:07
15."Anysound"Vision Valley1:55
16."Sun Child"Winning Days4:33

Personnel

  • Craig Nicholls – vocals, guitars, keys, moog
  • Ryan Griffiths – guitars, keys, percussion, backing vocals
  • Hamish Rosser – drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Dave Oliffe - drums on "Highly Evolved", "Autumn Shade", "Outtathaway", "Homesick" (outro only)
  • Joey Waronker - drums on "Get Free"
  • Pete Thomas - drums on "Factory", "Homesick" (excerpt)
  • Patrick Matthews - bass
  • Andy Kent – bass
  • Amanda Brown – violin
  • Rowan Smith – violin
  • Sophie Glasson – cello
  • Roger Joseph Manning Jr. - Keyboards

Other Credits

  • Rob Schnapf - Additional Guitars ("Homesick" and "Factory"), Producer, Mixing
  • Doug Boehm - Engineering, Mixing
  • Ted Jensen - Mastering
  • Ethan Johns - Additional Percussion ("Get Free", "Autumn Shade", "Factory")
  • Andrew Slater - Executive Producer
  • Andy Wallace - Mixing ("Get Free")
  • Doug Boehm - Engineer
  • Steven Rhodes - Additional Percussion ("Get Free", "Autumn Shade", "Factory"), Additional Engineering
  • Wayne Connolly – producer, recorder, mixing
  • Dan Clinch – additional engineering
  • Anthony The – additional engineering
  • Veit Mahler – additional engineering

Release history

Country Release date
United States 11 March 2008
Australia 5 April 2008
United Kingdom 5 May 2008

References

  1. "The Vines: The Best of The Vines" at AllMusic. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
  2. Q. May 2008. ISSN 0955-4955. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. "The Best of The Vines". The Vines' Top Hits and Album Tracks Gathered for New Capitol/EMI Collection. PR Newswire. 4 March 2008. Retrieved 14 April 2008.
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